Animated GIF files require a special resizing process to still be animated when they're resized. And, as awesome as this forum software is, it can't do that. So, if your animated avatar is bigger than 125x125px, it'll be resized, and won't be animated anymore.

Best thing you can do is resize your avatar yourself, to be less than 125x125px. I think Photoshop can resize an animated GIF properly, but I really don't know.

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Well, filesize normally doesn't affect avatars, but in this case, it does. Specifically, animated GIFs with a lot of frames and/or large filesizes can sometimes cause issues.

Do you what the file size limit is exactly? I've got an animated avatar I'd like to use here, and while the dimensions are 100 x 113, it still doesn't work. It's 25.2 KB with about 12 layers, if that helps.

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Well, filesize normally doesn't affect avatars, but in this case, it does. Specifically, animated GIFs with a lot of frames and/or large filesizes can sometimes cause issues.

Do you what the file size limit is exactly? I've got an animated avatar I'd like to use here, and while the dimensions are 100 x 113, it still doesn't work. It's 25.2 KB with about 12 layers, if that helps.

I don't, actually, I've never had the time/opportunity to test it. If anyone would like to experiment to try to work up some more accurate guidelines for animated avatars, I'd greatly appreciate the contribution

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Okay, so I got bored and wanted to help Duino out with his icon, so I did some testing.

25 KB is the maximum limit. When I uploaded a GIF that was 25, it wouldn't load at all. But, 24 KB and anything under that loaded perfectly.So, as long as your GIF is under that 25 limit, it should be fine.

Im having a slight problem with my Animated gif file, at the moment ive resized it so ts small enough and used that site to compress it and it definatly works still ive checked.But even though ive tried with the size 23.6KB one and then a 17KB one (it got bad after tht -_-) it still wont become animatedAny ideas?